Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!potomac!jtn
From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Source is not free
Summary: a public domain source code unix
Message-ID: <7616@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 19 Feb 89 23:30:33 GMT
References: <8902172034.AA29857@decwrl.dec.com>
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington VA
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> > I also want source code, for several reasons, all of
> > which I am sure are familiar to all of us.
> 
> Waiting for FSF to do it will probably be the only way most
> individuals can end up with Un*x-ish source on any machine
> that they personally own and control.
> 
> Mach (I think) and BSD and others are all limbs on the source tree
> that roots back to AT&T.  Any group or individual that wants source
> to -any- of these must also purchase a source license from AT&T.

My understanding is that the AT&T code is being removed from Mach.
Several peices of BSD are also being made public domain.  If Mach can
be completely un-encumbered then it will be possible for FSF to base
their GNU product on Mach....

...thus a freely copiable source code Unix (Mach + GNU actually).

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